After an initial review of the websites included on the RESEARCH page, prepare a short summary of your opinion regarding the guilt or innocence of Jeffrey MacDonald. Submit your summary by creating a thread in the discussion tab. The title of your thread should be GUILTY! or INNOCENT! Read at least three other students' post that agree with your opinion and one post that disagrees with your opinion. Respond to at least one other student's post. (Remember to be respectful when responding. If you are disagreeing with a statement, be gentle about it.)
ASSIGNMENT 2
Continue researching the case at a deeper level. Begin collaborating with classmates as your understanding of the case broadens. Share what you are learning with each other. Begin to gather evidence to support your opinion of Jeffrey MacDonald's guilt or innocence. Build your case on the wiki page within this site that applies (GUILTY/INNOCENT). You are not bound to your original opinion. You may change your opinion of his guilt or innocence at any point during the project.
Everyone must contribute to the wiki pages. (You cannot have one person do all of the page editing for you!)
ASSIGNMENT 3
Divide up the evidence that exists to support the case for Jeffrey MacDonald's guilt or innocence among the members of your collaborative team. (A team must have at least 4 members.) Each member should "specialize" in one aspect of the evidence and prepare a presentation to supplement their testimony as an expert witness in court. (For example: oneperson might testify about blood evidence, another might testify about fiber evidence, etc.) Keep in mind as you prepare your presentation for court that in many cases jury members are not familiar with the scientific aspect of the physical evidence. Your job as an expert witness is not only to testify as to what happened based on the evidence, but also to educate the jury members on how to interpret the physical evidence.
​ASSIGNMENT 1
After an initial review of the websites included on the RESEARCH page, prepare a short summary of your opinion regarding the guilt or innocence of Jeffrey MacDonald. Submit your summary by creating a thread in the discussion tab. The title of your thread should be GUILTY! or INNOCENT! Read at least three other students' post that agree with your opinion and one post that disagrees with your opinion. Respond to at least one other student's post. (Remember to be respectful when responding. If you are disagreeing with a statement, be gentle about it.)ASSIGNMENT 2
Continue researching the case at a deeper level. Begin collaborating with classmates as your understanding of the case broadens. Share what you are learning with each other. Begin to gather evidence to support your opinion of Jeffrey MacDonald's guilt or innocence. Build your case on the wiki page within this site that applies (GUILTY/INNOCENT). You are not bound to your original opinion. You may change your opinion of his guilt or innocence at any point during the project.Everyone must contribute to the wiki pages. (You cannot have one person do all of the page editing for you!)
ASSIGNMENT 3
Divide up the evidence that exists to support the case for Jeffrey MacDonald's guilt or innocence among the members of your collaborative team. (A team must have at least 4 members.) Each member should "specialize" in one aspect of the evidence and prepare a presentation to supplement their testimony as an expert witness in court. (For example: oneperson might testify about blood evidence, another might testify about fiber evidence, etc.) Keep in mind as you prepare your presentation for court that in many cases jury members are not familiar with the scientific aspect of the physical evidence. Your job as an expert witness is not only to testify as to what happened based on the evidence, but also to educate the jury members on how to interpret the physical evidence.Continue to either the GUILTY! or INNOCENT! page.